ultimate
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My earlier analysis pointed to the three bulwarks against attempted election subversion—the state and local governments that administer elections, the courts that protect rights, and the American people who are democracy’s ultimate safeguard.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
Intentionally or not, then, John’s ultimate choice to let Noah live and keep Kerry’s culpability in Hal’s death a secret is a demonstration of empathy’s bravery.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
The scene naturally became the ultimate climax of the film, which has a core aim stylistically — to make you feel like you’re at a real festival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“You become the ultimate arbiter that everyone else is looking at.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The ultimate goal is to develop total cognitive and kinesthetic awareness through sound.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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In this building," Clark proclaims, "everything emanates and ultimates from me.
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There is more in this book about Miss Woolson's literary mannerisms than Lincoln's world-shaking ideas; more about Joaquin Miller's escapades than Melville's struggles with the ultimates of morality.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And the book is, finally, both religious in its treatment of ultimates and morally eloquent in its strong rebuke for those who scorn any culture but their own.
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Nor should I make even a passing allusion to it, were it not for its political ultimates.
From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
For its central ideas relate to the remotest ultimates, and its dominant prepossession, the Overman, is, in the final reckoning, the creature of a Utopian fancy.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
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